We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.